Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Clites wrote: My brain was in PMC == class mode when I wrote what I wrote above, but now I need to rethink, since that's not a given (yet?). Not a given ever. PMCs may have a backing namespace, and that namespace may be a HLL class, but it might not. The terminology

Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up and running. At the moment, I'm torn between just having a new method of some sort in the class and having a vtable method on the class PMC that returns an object of that class. (get_pmc on the

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up and running. At the moment, I'm torn between just having a new method of some sort in the class and having a vtable method on the class PMC that returns an

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Jeff Clites
On Oct 15, 2003, at 8:36 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up and running. At the moment, I'm torn between just having a new method of some sort in the class and having a vtable method on the class PMC that

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Clites wrote: On Oct 15, 2003, at 8:36 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up and running. At the moment, I'm torn between just having a new method of some sort in the class

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Melvin Smith
At 03:49 PM 10/15/2003 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Clites wrote: On Oct 15, 2003, at 8:36 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up and running. At the moment, I'm torn between just

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Jeff Clites
On Oct 15, 2003, at 1:48 PM, Melvin Smith wrote: At 03:49 PM 10/15/2003 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Clites wrote: On Oct 15, 2003, at 8:36 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm poking around in the object stuff today, to try and get at least single-inheritance objects up

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Clites wrote: What do you mean by new method in the class above? In this case, the new method is a named method in the class namespace that we look up and call. We'd look it up and dispatch to it. A more low level like POV

Re: Instantiating objects

2003-10-15 Thread Luke Palmer
Leopold Toetsch writes: I think that for supporting Ruby or such we have to keep fences between PMCs and real objects very low. Agreed, or have some sort of automagic transformation possible. So it should be possible to define an Imaginary Number class that inherits from two (Perl?)Nums